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Self-Made and Blues-Rich is a concise history of African American music in the author's original poetry and ink-and-pencil drawings. The spirituals, blues, ragtime, jazz, gospel, rap, and more are captured in word and line that sing with black rhythms, timbres, and tones. "This collection is like a finely compressed jewel of African American meanings. The graphics of the volume are a wonderful complement to the resonant poetry. The spirit of African American song and instrumentation is stunningly captured in an appropriately tailored space". -- Houston A. Baker, Jr. Professor of English, The University of Pennsylvania "Both sensuously lyrical and poignantly vernacular, Jon Michael Spencer's poetry eloquently gives witness to the varied voices, rhythms, and gestures of black people and begs to be lifted from these pages and performed!" -- D. Soyini Madison Professor of Communications, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "It is not easy to effectively write poetry or make art about music. Yet Jon Michael Spencer has succeeded in doing both, with honesty, humor, insight, and all of the senses marshalled toward a deep understanding of African American expression and feeling". -- Richard J.

Superbly researched and vividly written, The Devil's Music is one of the only books to trace the rise and development of the blues both in relation to other forms of black music and in the context of American social history as experienced by African Americans. From its roots in the turn-of-the-century honky-tonks of New Orleans and the barrelhouses and plantations of the Mississippi Delta to modern legends such as John Lee Hooker and B. B. King, the blues comes alive here through accounts by the blues musicians themselves and those who knew them. Throughout this wide-ranging and fascinating book Giles Oakley describes the texture of the life that made the blues possible, and the changing attitudes towards the music. The Devil's Music is a wholehearted and loving examination of one of America's most powerful traditions.

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